In the first 15 months after the NSW Coalition and Labor voted together to dismantle the state’s bail laws the NSW prison population has skyrocketed. The state’s prison population is at a record high of 12, 121 prisoners, driven in large part by the remand...

Media release 18 May 2015 The number of people in NSW jails who have been refused bail rose by almost a quarter (from 2,819 to 3,476) in the six months following the September 2014 “toughening” of the state’s bail laws. This has produced a record number of 11,363...

Abbott and Baird’s plan to further amend bail laws to automatically refuse bail to anyone identified as a terror suspect goes beyond the recommendations in the joint Martin Place siege review, and pre-empts the outcomes of the coronial inquest. Greens MP and Justice...

NSW Labor last night joined with the Coalition to pass amendments to the NSW Bail Act that remove the presumption of innocence from the purposes of the Bail Act and reinstate complicated and unwieldy presumptions against bail. They made these changes with no...

Ugly, divisive and uninformed politics has produced the NSW government’s recently announced bail law reforms, which are not founded on evidence, are not supported by key stakeholders and ultimately will not make NSW a safer place. A copy of the report by former...

Come join former DPP Nicholas Cowdery, representatives of the NSW Bar Association and Dr Julia Quilter at NSW Parliament House to discuss the past – and future – of bail law in NSW. We will hear about how we got the current bail act, how it has been...